The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-01-21
FOREIGN.
EvIctions In Ireland Postponed on
Account OF Storms.
A Bark Founders and Twelve Persons
are Drowned.
a Steamer Wrecked and All on Board
Except One Lost.
a Manifesto Issued by the Opposition
Party In Germany.

LONDON, Jan. 20-The eyietions which
were TO have been effected at Glenbigh yes
terday were postponed until today on ac-
count Of stormy weather. A reporter at
Glenbigh says; People here are better
clothed and fed than many in the south Of
Ireland. The land, though poor, Is better
than on most estates. The books show that
rent has been greatly reduced Agent Roe
says that there were arrears Of R6.177 In
May, 1886, which he hopelessly tried to OBJ
tain, Offering TO cancel G5,312, and demand
ing only half Of last years rent Father
Quilter wrote to General Butler that he
undertook to have the tenants carry this
agreement out, and some paid Father Quilter,
thus setting an example. Later he wrote to
Colonel Turner: '"rhe tenants have broken
their promises, and l shall have nothing
more to do with them. 1t Is untrue that we
are eyicting by the wholesale. There are 300
tenants altogether. Seventy were forgiven
and DEGREES were issued against 75, OF whom
81 paid up later The houses we're razed 10
prevent attempts to regain possession by
force, such as were witnessed on the occasion
Of the last evlctions." Agent Roe denies
the allegations Of cruelty, and says that sick
and aged persons were In every Instance re-
dumlttcQ 10 tuolr homes.
The barque Caterlna, from Cardiff for
Aspinwall, has foundered In the Bristol
Channel. Twelve persons were drowned.
France Is buying large quantities Of sui
phuric ether from German manufacturers.
This Is an ingredient in the new explosive
called mellnite, and the supply turned out by
the French factories has proved inadequate
10 the demand from the War Department.
A despatch from Peniehe, Spain, says the
steamer Brentford, from Newport for Malta,
has been wrecked and all on board but one
were lost.
BERLIN. Jan. 2O--AttentioIl- ~has been
drawn TO the fact that the French govern
ment are buying large quantities OF timber IN
Alsace-L0rraine, with the apparent purpose
Of building wooden barracks at various
points along the frontier. The German
theory Of Frances object In this work Is that
she wishes to facilitate an invasion Of Ger
man territory.
The Progressists have issued a manifesto
signed by Bamberger, Richter, Rickert,
Schenck, Virchow and others. They call
upon their partisans to support only candi-
dates opposed TO absolute government and
sham constitution, warning them that other
wise tobacco and spirit m0nopOlies and other
evils will be introduced In Parliament. 1--WE
must make stand" they cry. ITO maintain
the foundation Of the imperial constitution,
especially universal secret suffrage" The
Conservative manifesto says that the watch
word Of the struggle must be: mo parlla-
mentary army, but an imperial army" The
National Liberal leaders have issued an adj
dress severely censuring the action of the
majority Of the Reichstag, and calling upon
National Liberals to elect only men deter
mined to make sacrifices for the security Of
the empire against foes at home and abroad
Foreign Notes.
Stanley, the explorer, started from London
yesterday on his expedition for the relief Of
Emir Bey, whom he expects to reach by July
at the latest.